Name: Jordan Schlansky’s Origin Story | Team Coco Radio
Uploaded: 2026-02-02T04:29:52.000Z
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Adverbs of degree

I'm here with a very special guest at the moment.

This is someone I get asked about more than anyone else I've worked with in late night.

Adverbs of manner

Wherever I go, wherever I go in the world, probably once a day, people come up to me and say, what's the deal with Jordan Schlansky?

So I thought I'd have Jordan come in, sit down, and

maybe we'd talk about this and see if we can't figure out what this relationship is really all about.

You have to tell me that's not my responsibility.

Okay, well, why don't you put the microphone a little closer to your mouth?

You are being an incredible prick already.

I didn't realize I was functioning as an audio engineer, but I'm happy to comply.

Okay, I'm not an audio engineer, but I could tell immediately.

I. I don't know how these are calibrated.

If you're listening right now and you're driving and you're clenching the wheel angrily, I apologize.

That's because, like me, when someone comes on and takes an arrogant, inhuman tone, you get upset.

Why would you assume I know how many inches this is meant to be from my mouth?

How many inches is this from my mouth you just opened yourself up to?

I mean, if the impractical jokers right now were on the line, they'd be having a blast.

Jordan, let's get started before you get combative or strange.

Please answer these questions succinctly.

I was an unpaid intern initially, and then I was hired to continue my employment.

Okay, so you started out as an intern, and

then some fucking idiot decided to hire you on permanently, and

you were paid, and then eventually you got a title on the show, which was.

Man, if there's ever been a vague term, it would have to be Associate Producer because we started using you on the show.

And when I say using you, I mean featuring you as a personality because you're so unusual.

Frank Smiley, longtime producer on our show, said, jordan's fascinating.

I thought that was kind of immoral, you know, in a way, to take advantage of someone with your limitations and exploit you.

And so I also blame Frank for empowering you.

By the way, Frank, do you remember Jordan worked on the show and then you one day said, we gotta get this guy on camera.

Well, I mean, it was an easy softball for you to hit out of the park every time because we had this relationship and it wasn't being recorded.

The relationship that people see in these remotes was basically going on in the office every single day.

Because it was going on for several years before you even thought to put this on camera.

It was during the writers strike when we were desperate for material that wasn't.

You just needed me and Jordan in a room together and stuff would start to happen because he's so naturally provocative.

There's nobody like Jordan, and he's a strange man.

And it's obvious that America loves them.

Yeah, America has taken you to its collective bosom.

I swear to God, almost every day people ask me, what's the deal with Jordan?

My son loves In N Out, the In N Out hamburger chain here in California.

And a bunch of years ago, we're passing one and my son is really hungry, and

So we pull over into the parking lot and my son goes in to place his order.

A truck, a semi truck, screeches to a halt.

The driver puts it in neutral and puts on the emergency brake, jumps out and runs across the highway and says to me, I just have to know, is Jordan real?

I mean, this guy put his life in danger to find out if you are real.

I still don't know exactly what you did on our show.

Well, across the entertainment industry, the title associate producer is somewhat variable.

I had a multitude of responsibilities geared towards the smooth operation of the show.

One of my responsibilities was not, and that was not to explain to you what I do.

Let me explain to people listening right now.

If you're familiar at all with the defense mechanisms behind a modern nuclear sub, here's how it works.

If it's attacked, what happens is that the enemy ship fires a torpedo at it that homes in on the large metallic structure that is the subject as it gets close.